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Patiurus Vireatus. Nepat Curisr’s- 
Tuorn. | 
KEKE KERR EEE REE 
Class and Order. 
PeEnTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 
Generic Character. ogee 
Calyx urceolatus; basi persistente. Petala 5, staminibus 
opposita. Capsula supera, coriacea, 3-locularis, clatisa, 
-margine dilatato, Semina solitaria. Smith Fl. Grac.3. _ 
. 
_ Specific Character. 
P. virgatus, ramulis glabris, foliis oblique cordatis ellipti-- 
_ eisve acutis trinerviis lucidis, fructis alé integerrima, 
caule erecto. Don Prodr. Fl, Nepal.p. 189.0 
Dascr: A branching upright shrub, from six to ten 
feet high. Stem about the thickness of one’s finger, covered 
with a lead-coloured bark. Branches numerous, divided, 
ee horizontally. Branchlets slender, drooping. _ 
Lut alternate, drooping, ovate or elliptical, most fre- 
quently with an onesie ebedad base, thin, quite smooth 
on both sides, shining above, paler, or slightly glaucous 
below, furnished with three nerves and with numerous 
lateral veins, from one to two inches long, and from half 
an inch to an inch in width: margins finely toothed. Pe- 
ttoles semicylindrical, slightly hairy, about half an inch 
long. Stipules two, at first small; but afterwards pé sing 
into two unequal, firm, shining thorns; the larger one _ 
straightish, awl-shaped, halfan inch to an inch long, th 
_ a thickened base; the smaller one recurved, and thrice _ 
shorter. Cymes axillary, solitary, forked, on a short pe- — 
duncle, about the length of the petioles. Flowers ir * 
